Circularity Co-Creation with Stora Enso

At Stora Enso, we want to move towards a circular economy by providing packaging made from renewable and recyclable materials. As companies and societies increasingly choose to replace non-renewable materials with renewable and recyclable alternatives, our customers want that, too.

We constantly co-create packaging with our customers to fulfill that need, but the work is done manually. We are looking for ways to digitize that process and help our customers create and achieve their circularity objectives.

The Packaging Solutions division provides fiber-based board materials, corrugated packaging products, and services for various applications. From thousands of packaging solutions and designs, we want to ensure the client can select the type that answers their specific need efficiently. We aim to engage the customers in our design processes and bring them closer to Stora Enso. We want to use intelligent technologies to help our customers make decisions by building a Virtual Lab to connect the data, our customers, and us. The Virtual Lab will create new business opportunities, providing service and knowledge alongside our products.

We want to take our co-creation to a new level by introducing a Virtual Lab for our customers. Our objective for the lab is digitizing our current co-creation work modules, creating a tailor-made solution for our way of working.

Through personalized questions and recommendations, we aim to introduce structure and create an overview of the customer’s circularity decisions.

The lab is supposed to give fast feedback on customer requests, provide data-driven indications and recommendations, and showcase the impact of sustainability through personalized and powerful visualization. The solution will consist of different modules connected via a standard interface, but in this case, we will focus on an intelligent recommendation tool. We want this module to ask questions about the customer’s sustainability targets and then create personalized recommendations. We are also interested in exploring the possibilities of integrations with other platforms currently in use at Stora Enso. Please see the examples below for the functionalities we are looking for, but remember that your solution may be something beyond them.